Evaluation of New York Times Stories

     As the New York Times is one of the more well known newspaper, now in digital form, it makes sense that it would be the best source to start with for research and understanding of how to analyze stories for research purposes.
      The two sections I decided to look through for the making of this post were Science and the Arts, the two things I'm most interested in. The story I decided to focus on from the Art section is: David Bowie Dies at 69; Star Transcended Music, Art and Fashion, and from the Science section: Ninth Planet May Exist Beyond Pluto, Scientists Report.

Frazier, Ron. "David Bowie, R.I.P." 01/11/2016 via Flickr.
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But Who is this Really About
      David Bowie- If the title wasn't enough indication this articles main protagonist is David Bowie, or rather the recently deceased star David Bowie. The departed famous man is the central point of this story, practically a eulogy to the man's life and many achievement's and skills, his role throughout the piece is to be lauded one final time.
     Ninth Planet- The real star of this piece isn't a star at all but a planet, and actually the protagonist of this story is an astronomer; Dr. Michael Brown a professor of planetary astronomy who has had multiple colleagues along the way but was the main lead role. Hi roles in the story of discovering a ninth farther planet in our solar system is that he co-wrote the paper arguing for its classification as a planet, after observing the proposed planet years ago.

Just Give Me a Time and Place 
      David Bowie- There is no specific time and place for this article; the time that could be said to truly affect this article is that it is indeed directly after Bowie's passing and so emotions caused by that event are still prevalent and the article can have high impact.
      Ninth Planet- The most specific place for this article is Caltech, the timeline is more recent for the actual declaration that there could be a ninth planet, on January 20th in fact. The time and setting facilitated this discovery in a way; the capabilities of professors at a university with more extensive research materials than just a kid looking in a telescope up at the night sky.
      A tidbit about how the timing of these two things coincide in a happy way. David Bowie passes and a planet finding is announced, many on the internet, in a happy sort of mourning, declare that the planet that has been found is merely David Bowie's true home and he just had to leave Earth. Kind-humored references to some of David Bowie's first works "Space Oddity" and the movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth".

Paree. "*Planet*"02/01/2009 via Flickr.
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The Discourse(tm)
David Bowie- No debates within this article, merely facts and references to things already happened.
Ninth Planet- There is some argument throughout this work, disagreements not raised by the author of the work but raised by other astronomer's concerns that there isn't a planet truly out there. However the article does not go into depth about such things, merely giving the facts about the proposal of the planets and the found facts that point to its very possible existence.